Robin Skone Palmer

Robin Skone Palmer

I LOVE SOAP! Most people who know me know that a bar of soap is the best present they could give me. I love great smelling soap! Two years ago my friend Lois and I were in Brazil visiting another friend, Jean, who was working at the American Consulate in Rio de Janeiro. While there, Lois and I took a side trip to Iguassu Falls on the Brazil/Argentine border. Our travel agent had booked us into the outrageously expensive

Since we’re talking about tasting wine — sniffing it, swirling it and savoring it, and also how you hold your wine glass (or rather how you don’t hold your wine glass), I might as well put the last of my pet peeves out there… I WANNA SMELL THE WINE! Are you, like me, becoming more sensitive to things that smell? I mean hand lotion and deodorant and shampoo. Have you ever sat next to or behind someone at a concert, in church or at a lecture and nearly gagged because of their perfume? My friend Melenda and I have changed seats more than once to get away from somebody who either didn’t realize or didn’t care that their perfume was the olfactory equivalent of a boom box. I don’t want to smell it! At a wine tasting, the last thing you want to smell is somebody’s perfume. This came home to me… Read More »